The Hunt Page #4

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the hips. Come on.

One, two, one, two. Good. Go on.

Very good. Great. Go on.

If you'd fix yourself up a bit,

you'd be gorgeous.

Carmen!

Go place the stones.

- We can dance some more later and

I'll take more pictures. - All right.

Juan, the peppers.

They don't agree with me,

but just for today...

It's hot, uncle.

This looks like a funeral.

I bet you showed him the dead guy.

This is the final touch.

Didn't you tell me that

nobody else knew?

Luis did. We found it together.

Which dead man are you

talking about? Arturo?

Tell him, so all four of us will know.

Everybody knows. He's shown it to

everyone who comes down here.

Jose's great secret! A dead guy from

the war that he keeps locked up.

- What? Which war?

- Any war, what's it to you?

When the sun comes down

we'll hunt with ferrets.

They're like vampires.

I mean the ferrets.

Have you seen their faces?

They look like women.

The females look like women.

When males are in heat, they will

die if they can't find a female.

- That's what they say.

- They're like men, then.

It's obvious you haven't

hunted rabbits much.

There are those that raise the shotgun

immediately to hunt the rabbit.

That's a mistake.

Take it from an expert.

I haven't hunted much,

but I'm learning.

Rabbits and rats are the animals

that multiply the most.

The females have two wombs,

and they're always ready.

Rabbits are wonderful things.

Especially if they're young and tender.

Their soft skin. Their wits.

Don't you want some peppers?

- Jose know a lot about them.

- And I hope to know more.

Not much time left.

The day will come when rabbits

will eat up the human species.

They'll invade us and form

a new civilization.

And since they're smaller than we are...

There'll room for them all.

Class struggle will disappear.

There will be no more enemies.

And they'll be fine.

But prior to that, there will

be a war against the rats.

Stop that! It's disgusting.

I feel I'm eating a rat.

They say that in the war

a lot of people ate rats.

I've never eaten one, and I don't

know of anyone who has.

Wait, I haven't finished.

I'll just continue.

Since there are a lot of vampires

with women's faces...

- rabbits will have a hard time.

- Shut up!

Yes, shut up and sleep a while.

You could get drunk at night and

give us a break during the day.

What a day. Seems like

the earth will burn.

"and a third of the earth

was burned up,

"and a third of the trees

were burned up,

"and all the green grass

was burned up."

Don't say a word to Paco about

our conversation in town, OK?

- You're a mischief-maker.

- What do I care?

Quique, help me with the mattress.

- "I had a dream tonight, dad.

- "A dream?

- "And what did you dream?

- "Things, I can't remember.

- "I got killed.

- What did you watch on TV last night?

- "I can't remember.

- And how were you killed?

- "With dogs, the dogs would bite me.

- Dogs?

"They teach them four things, they do

nothing all day and dream about dogs.

"If she had been raised like I was."

"You stained the shirt with my blood.

"Can't you see? That's not blood!

The kids. Anita! Where are they?

"The kids are mine. Mine, mine!

"The blood stains won't

come off from the shirt.

"Don't talk so loud,

they'll all find out.

- "Don't touch me!

- "Will you open the window?

- "Don't touch me!

- "I need some fresh air.

- "I'm choking.

- "I'm going to choke.

"The heat is unbearable.

"Burn down that cave.

Burn down that cave!

- "Burn down that cave!

- "Look, you're choking.

"The air is clean and fragrant.

"You've poisoned yourself.

"You're skin is old and dry.

"It's all mine. The papers are mine!

"Look how my skin shines.

"Look at the water drops

sliding down my breast.

"Help me, I can't move.

"My arm is burning.

"I can't move."

"Moralisch ist,

"wonach man sich gut fhlt,

"und unmoralisch ist, wonach man

"sich schlecht fhlt."

"We've all changed, but Paco

has become another person.

"I still remember him.

"He'd do anything for money.

"Now he must think I'm

useless, like Luis.

"Like Juan...

"We're roasting in this place.

"And this pain..."

- Who was it with the shots?

- Must be that idiot Luis.

Damned drunk! Do we always have

to put up with your boozing?

Jose! Take it easy!

Take it easy, Jose!

Leave him alone!

- What did you do, hit Luis?

- Shut up, Quique!

- You don't hit a drunk man!

- I said shut up!

He drives me mad... I'm sorry.

Come on, Jose.

It's nothing.

Did he hurt you, Luis?

And a good thing that he

didn't shoot at us.

- Who knows...?

- Don't blow it up, it wasn't big deal.

He drives me crazy!

Remember Arturo?

I wish he'd be here with us.

Why would he do it?

I never really understood

why he did it.

It's hard to understand...

Sometimes, you suddenly realize that

everything you've done was wrong.

Noting makes sense... and so...

Even so, suicide in no solution.

It's the worst solution.

I, for example, have made mistakes.

There are some who wouldn't

acknowledge it

But I do.

If I could start all over again.

- It's been easy street for you!

- You found everything ready-made!

And when you stumbled, there was

someone to get you out of the fix.

To our friendship.

- Are you sorry now?

- Sorry about what?

Today is a good day to

confess your little sins.

Why did you start the fire?

I was bored.

Don't you like the flames?

How could you put up

with him hitting you?

Thus shall be the end of the world.

All burning in the eternal fire. Amen.

- Won't the flames spread?

- For what this is worth...

The rabbits will be the only

ones who'll be sorry.

But they don't care. What with

myxomatosis, the ferrets...

the vermin and Jose

and Paco's shots...

Just a little extra heat...

Luis, this is spreading. Help me.

What are you doing?

Put that out!

Quique! Luis! Bring a

branch to put it out!

Come on, Quique, hurry up!

Come on, come on! Hurry up!

Come on, Juan! Luis!

Hurry up, it's burning!

Whenever you're ready, Don Jos.

It's the best time of day to hunt

with the critters.

Are you sure there are

no more exits, Jose?

"Something survived. Something

that is now completely forgotten.

"There was rain, wind and ice.

"The Earth's scars were erased

over millions of years.

"We don't even know where

the scars were situated...

"or whether human beings existed then

on the Earth or on the Fifth Planet."

They're ready!

Jose! The critter's inside.

"I don't feel well.

Could it be the sun?

"If a rabbit comes out,

I'll let Paco shoot.

"He likes to hunt treacherously.

"Through the corridors in his house

a large beast pursues him.

"Until he gets pushed

to the door, and then...

"somebody shoots him in the neck.

"I'm getting weaker by the day."

"He says he made a mistake.

"A big one... It's too late to repent.

"He should have stayed with his wife.

"We would all love to have a

young girl with a crush on us.

"The cripple looks like a ferret."

Coming out! Coming out!

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